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Parents ask why Texas police killed 8th-grade son carrying pellet gun

Published 01/05/2012, Associated Press

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- The parents of an eighth-grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing - and refused to drop - what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly.

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